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Speaking the truth about sexual
orientation — a criminal act?

By the time you read this, President Bush may be thinking about whether or
not to sign a new bill proposed by the House of Representatives: the
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (H.R. 1592). (Similar
legislation is being considered by the Senate.) The purpose of the bill
is to expand existing federal hate crime law by criminalizing any attack
or injury, however slight, "motivated by the victims gender or sexual
orientation."

Christopher Ferrara, President of the American Catholic Lawyers Association
(ACLA) has called this pernicious piece of legislation "a dagger
aimed at the heart of Catholic moral teaching on marriage and procreation".
Yet, in spite of a storm of protest by evangelical Protestants, Catholics
have been strangely silent.

While purporting to be aimed at "bias-based
violence", the real purpose of these bills can only be to further
restrict freedom of speech, religious expression and equal protection
under the law. If this legislation passes, only "politically correct" thoughts
and speech will be allowed, especially when it comes to issues of "sexual
orientation".

This is because your motivation can only be
tested by what you say or write. So if you have ever written or said
anything against the sin of sodomy, that will be "evidence" that
could convert something as simple as a shove — a misdemeanor under
most existing state laws — into a federal crime punishable by as
much as ten years in prison!

In spite of the fact that it isn't talked about
very much in the New Church, sodomy is still a sin! But who
will dare to say so now? The very powerful "gay lobby" in Congress
and the media is on the verge of criminalizing any words or thoughts
that dare to suggest that homosexuality is abnormal or morally disordered,
let alone sinful.

Just think! If the Pope were to wag his finger
at a gay priest, and inflict even a small scratch, the Holy Father could — in
the USA — find himself doing jail time. Yet no American Cardinal
or bishop has spoken out against this literally dreadful and hateful
legislation. Catholics, wake up and speak out! Write to your congressman,
write to your senator, and above all write to the President! This bill
must not become law!

Cardinal Bertone gives an interview

Following Pope Benedict XVI's May trip to Brazil,
the Vatican Secretary of State, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, gave an interview
to the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire in which he answered
questions on certain things that happened during the trip that the media
found controversial.

Almost as an afterthought, the Cardinal was
asked two questions on matters which we have written about here and on our
website: the forthcoming papal documents on China and the Latin
Mass.

Q: Your Eminence, please allow some extra
questions. Is the Pope's letter to the Chinese Catholics ready?
Cardinal Bertone: The text of the letter has been definitively
approved by the Holy Father and now the translations into different
languages are being made and the technical aspects of its publication
are being worked on.

Our comment: Please pray that in its haste to "normalize" relations
with Communist China, the Vatican will not compromise with the schismatic
Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA), the puppet "church" the
Communists created in 1957 to replace the True Church. Rome must not
abandon the millions of true believers who even today are paying a heavy
price for their loyalty.

To learn more about this, read "Support
or Sellout" in The
Fatima Crusader. Q: And the also expected "motu proprio" that
would liberalize the use of the so-called Pius V missal, at what point
is it? Cardinal Bertone: I believe that we will not have to wait much
longer for its publication. The Pope is personally interested in seeing
this happen. He will explain it in an accompanying letter, hoping for
a serene reception.

Our comment: A well-known figure in traditionalist
circles, Monsignor Michael Schmitz, was quoted not long ago as saying: "Recently,
we have been thinking that any day it will come. But we may still be
thinking that in 30 years' time." Let us pray that Benedict
XVI will do what he must surely know he should do ... before thirty years
and before he has to face his Eternal Judge.

You'll find more comments on this in James Bannister's
article "Return to the Traditional Mass: how long must we wait?" in
the Fatima
Perspectives section of our website.

And remember, the Fatima Shoppe offers Father
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Putin's promise: mutually assured destruction

Britain's secret intelligence service, the MI6,
has confirmed what has already been widely reported, including in Issue
85 of The Fatima Crusader.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared, perhaps even eager, to
resurrect the climate of the Cold War.

Their recent report to UK Prime Minister Blair
concludes that Putin is willing to use Russia's huge natural gas and
oil reserves as tools to win his political battle for domination of the
West. The report says "He demonstrated that when he switched off
the gas supplies to the Ukraine last year.... Increasingly Europe, and
ultimately Britain, will become dependent on Russian gas supplies."

In a speech earlier this year, Putin tried to
put the blame on the USA. He told us plainly that Russia was arming itself — not
that it had ever disarmed — supposedly to counter US plans to dominate
eastern Europe and the Middle East. He warned that Russia views US plans
to build a missile defense system based in Poland as increasing "the
risk of mutual destruction."

It is the first time since the height of the
Cold War that a Russian leader has chosen such chilling words. But it
is not the first time that we have been warned. Our Lady of Fatima told
us plainly that if Her request for the Consecration of Russia is not
heeded, "various nations will be annihilated".

Now the Russian president has warned he was
considering withdrawing Russia from the post-Cold War treaty intended
to keep the peace in Europe. Alex Pravda, a UK-based expert on Russian
politics, said: "There is a new confidence and defiance in Russian
foreign policy."

Make no mistake about it. Vladimir Putin means
what he says. He has spoken plainly and repeatedly. But are we listening?
The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences said recently that there are
seven "signs of the times" which cause concern for the future
of international relations. These are the reemergence of nationalism,
weak convergence, pervasive poverty, the weakness of multilateralism (meaning
peace treaties, nonaggression pacts and the United Nations), doubts regarding
millennium goals, insufficient and inefficient aid, and terrorism
and war.

So the Church sees the warning signs. But what
is She doing to prevent the imminent chastisement, the annihilation of
nations and the loss of billions of lives and souls? We await an answer.

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